Moral But No Compass: No Map Either? by David Keen
Speaking to a councillor at a Local Authority, I realised a couple of minutes into the chat that it wasn’t really a conversation - he was simply asking loaded questions to get a ‘vicar supports council policy’ answer out of me.
This post - the third in our series about the “Moral but No Compass” report [...]
My Initial Reactions to Moral but No Compass: Bishop Alan Wilson
This post - the second in our series about the “Moral but No Compass” report commissioned by the Church of England looking at the role of the Church in the public square, is a repost of the initial reflections from Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham.
The article was originally posted on Bishop Alan’s blog on Monday [...]
Churches and public service - Thinking Aloud by Simon Barrow
Introduction by Matt Wardman
At The Wardman Wire we will be publishing a series of articles about the Von Hugel Institute Centre for the Study of Faith in Society report “Moral, but No Compass”. Over the next several weeks, we will be publishing a number of articles - hopefully from a range of viewpoints - aiming [...]
Cassilis is No More: A Paean to his Thoughtful Posting
According to cassilis.co.uk, Liam has hung up his keyboard.
If he has gone, it is a piccolo tragedy, as Cassilis was a distinctive and thoughtful voice in the blogosphere, and his Think Tank Roundup was one of the two or three most innovative initiatives of the last 12 months. It was also probably the only one [...]
Analysis of Brewer and Pritchard plea, Jobs Board, Blog Stats: SPCK Update 15/9/2008:
More about the SPCK/SSG case:
Analysis of the Mark Brewer / bplaw.com Sanctions Motion and the Response.
20,000 page views a month for the SPCK News Blog.
Adverts for Jobseekers and Vacancies
An SSG Employment Tribunal case study will be published at lunchtime.
My weekly SPCK roundup should be out sometime on Saturday morning. This is just a summary.
What Can Gordo Do Now?
After today’s fresh disaster for Gordon Brown, with the resignation of a Minister of State, David Cairns, following on from a weekend of revolting Labour MPs , what can he do now?
As far as I can see, he has four main options:
1. Resign as PM as let the Labour Party try and sort itself out.
Somehow, [...]
Labour 2008: A Dying Fish Flopping about in the Bottom of a Boat?
From the BBC:
The Labour Party has moved to see off an attempt by 12 rebel MPs to force a challenge to Gordon Brown’s leadership.
Its ruling National Executive Committee has rejected calls to get nomination forms sent out to all Labour MPs before next week’s party conference.
Whoever is trying to prevent any prospect of a Labour [...]
